1. Organizational Theory and Organizational Behavior

The first course in Organizational Theory and Organizational Behavior provides a baseline for understanding and studying innovation processes in organizations. This course is particularly important given that PIMS will have a diverse set of students not all of whom have been exposed to management/organizational research or even the social sciences.

2. Strategic Management of Innovation and Service Innovation

How firms create and capture value and innovation (e.g. IP strategy, open innovation). And on innovation in service industries such as healthcare, finance and design and also the increasing integration of service components with physical products to capture value.

3. Exploration and Exploitation

Deals with balancing short and long-term corporate survival through organizational ambidexterity and builds on and extends the discussions from Innovation Strategy.

4. Innovation Learning and Change

Focuses on how organizations learn and absorb new knowledge from the environment and adapt to changing circumstances. This course builds directly on the courses in Organizational Theory and Behavior and Exploration and Exploitation, and relates to the session on Innovation Strategy. The course in learning and change is inextricably linked to Knowledge and Creative Management.

5. Knowledge and Creative Management

This course deals with how organizations manage tacit and explicit knowledge to foster innovation; and, how organizations manage creative processes and how design can drive innovation.

6. Contexts for Innovation and Disruptive Innovation

Contexts for Innovation and Disruptive Innovation has two relatively independent topics. Contexts for innovation, discusses how various regions and localized social capital can impact innovation processes in firms. Disruptive innovation discusses how technologies initially serving low-end customers, through gradual innovation, can take over and disrupt whole industries.